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SEC bestow first whistleblowers awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
While Australian financial regulators wrestle with how to treat whistleblowers, in the US regulators actually have a formal executive office dedicated to supporting them and even bestow awards on whistleblowers. The US Securities Exchange Commission ...

More super changes inevitable: EY report

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Further changes to superannuation regulations are inevitable and more work is needed to improve confidence in the system, according to EY's Australia-based global pension leader Graeme McKenzie. Releasing EY's new report, 'Building a better retirement ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened lower as tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones ...

Crime survey finds fraud rife in Australia

PETRINA BERRY, AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
Well-educated men in their 30s from middle management are the most likely perpetrators of internal fraud, a survey of Australian firms shows. PricewaterhouseCoopers' 2014 Global Economic Crime Survey found Australian organisations reported more crime ...

Government must recycle brownfield infra: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... relatively greater in-house staff experience and expertise when it comes to investing in infrastructure assets," the EY report said.

Expected retirement age slowly going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Despite the policy push for increasing the retirement age, most Australians are still retiring in their early fifties even though more future retirees expect to have to keep working beyond age 70. The average age of retirement in Australia in 2012-13 ...

AustSuper denies member exploitation of group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has denied that 'automatic acceptance' to the fund's group life insurance offering is being exploited. AustralianSuper's insurer, TAL, recently announced that its profits were down by almost 60% from the same ...

ASIC's SMSF report being misread

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
A report commissioned by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) into the cost of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) has been misinterpreted. The report, 'Cost of Operating SMSFs', which was prepared by Rice Warner Actuaries ...

Sex discrimination rife: eFinancialCareers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
Employment services provider eFinancialCareers had said after a survey that nearly two thirds of Australian finance professionals think gender discrimination takes place in the industry. After reviewing the results of a survey it conducted on gender ...

Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... segment is Ringgit-denominated Sukuk, which accounts for more than two thirds of total global issuance, according to the EY report, with Malaysia regularly tapping into the Sukuk market to support its infrastructure development program. The Sukuk market ...